Archaeological Notes

Chapter 31
As soon as Huang Mao said this, we were all stunned and found that our whole body was stiff. The big back came back to our senses for the first time, and hit the light in a circle. Under the light, we saw the stone platform where we went down to the pool It was gone, all around us were wrinkled stone walls, and a cross-shaped building was erected above our heads, majestic and majestic.At first glance, it seems that it is indeed not the pool we came down from. The environment has completely changed, and it is not the same as before.

Dabei looked at it for a while, was stunned at first, and suddenly burst into laughter. We were a little at a loss for his inexplicable behavior, thinking that he had lost his mind and went crazy.But he patted the yellow-haired head, swept the light directly above the pool, and cursed: "Damn! Your eyesight is not good when you are young. It is the pool we came down from, but the water flowed into the bottom of the pool and caused the water level to rise. The line dropped..."

When Huang Mao was trained by Dabeitou, he laughed instead of anger, and wanted to say a few words to ease the atmosphere, but there was a shout from above us, it turned out to be Brother Liu Mao.He was lying on a stone platform more than ten meters above us, holding a flashlight and shaking it non-stop, his expression was excited, and he felt his voice trembling with joy.

We swam to the rocky wall by the pool one after another, and asked Liu Maodi to descend the rope from above.It is definitely not possible for five people to go up together. The toughness of the rope is limited. Once the weight cannot bear the weight, the internal organs of the people who fall to the surface of the pool may be displaced by the water. .The thin man is the most athletic among the five of us, so he volunteered to go up first without anyone telling him. He rubbed his palms to warm them up, squeezed his knuckles cracklingly, and tugged at the rope. The body will go up one or two meters.Then he wrapped his legs around the rope, making several strokes, as dexterous as a mountain ape, and within a minute, he was already on the square stone platform that Liu Maodi had set up.

There is a saying that it is easy to watch a play and difficult to act in a play. When it comes to actual actions, I will always hate my poor physique and envy others for their good physique.It's still a stone wall and a rope, but it doesn't feel comfortable in my hands. The rope is made of hemp, and when I grab it with strength, it hurts my palm.The stone wall was covered with sticky moss, and the feet couldn't step on it at all, and it was slippery.Accidentally, the whole person hangs in mid-air and spins, so he has to hug tightly and dare not let go, and then climbs up again after he recovers.In this way, the thin man took less than a minute, but it took me five or six minutes to climb the stone platform. In the end, Liu Maodi couldn't stand it anymore, and helped me by pulling the rope on it.After I went up, my face felt hot. It seems that I can’t do aerobic exercise all the time in the future. It’s time to go rock climbing and strengthen my physique.But I don't think it has much practical significance. If I can go out this time, I don't think I will fight with them again in my life.

It was not troublesome for the big back head and the yellow hair to come up, but Niu Er didn't look easy when he came up. The key was because he was too fat. It took us more than half an hour before we finally all went up to the stone platform and returned to where we first got off. Tam's starting point.A few people had lingering fears in their hearts, reminiscing about what happened at the bottom of the pool, and they couldn't calm down for a long time.Looking at the pool at the bottom, which was pitch black and without any light, I couldn't help shivering, because at this time, unlike a few hours ago, the water in the pool receded, and the cross-shaped stone path that was originally built on the water surface The sacrificial altar in the middle of it seemed to stand taller and taller. Looking around, it looked like a sky bridge, magnificent and natural.

Brother Liu Maodi was still chattering about how anxious he was when we didn't come up for a long time. Seeing that he was so energetic, I really wondered if he was pretending to be dying at the bottom of the pool.Everyone was so tired that they ignored his rhetoric at all, only felt that they were hungry and cold, and their stomachs were empty, so Huang Mao took out some biscuits, chocolate and other high-calorie foods from his bag and distributed them to everyone to replenish their energy.I'm a little more particular. I pulled off my diving suit, and the clothes inside were all soaked. I quickly put on the military coat that I took off when I went down to the pool at the beginning, and hugged me tightly until I picked up something to eat again. Chew wax, and if you are too hungry, you will be numb to the point where you won't feel hungry.

The big-backed head and the yellow-haired cow took off their bodies cleanly after three times and five times. They laughed and took out the clothes from the bag and put them on. They lit three smokeless stoves to keep warm and sat around. Let's brag together.I saw the skinny man sitting alone at the side with his eyes closed, resting his mind, his clothes were soaked but still wearing his body, I felt pitiful for him, and I wanted to ask him to come over to warm up with pity, but after thinking about it, I decided to forget it.

Maybe I was too tired, the fire of the smokeless stove made me feel tired, and the dirty jokes a few people were talking about became blurred, and I fell asleep unconsciously with bread stuffed in my mouth.When I woke up, it was already an hour later.

While I was having a good dream, I suddenly felt a bright light piercing my eyes. I opened them reluctantly, and found that Dabeitou and the others were snoring against their travel bags. Lick it with your tongue.The fuel in the smokeless stove has slowly burned out, and the skinny man is adding fuel to it beside me. Seeing that I wake up, he doesn't have any expression on his face, just doing his own thing.

So I wondered where the light hit my eyelids just now, and when I looked around, with the light from the smokeless stove, I could only see a mass of darkness surrounding us.Puzzled, he lay back to the original place, but suddenly saw something shining on the sacrificial altar in the middle of the four stone paths, crystal clear.

I hurriedly pushed Dabeitou to wake them up, and signaled that there was something on the sacrificial altar. Huangmao rubbed his eyes and asked, "What's wrong? I can't sleep well. I finally squinted. Don't make a fuss. When you see the wind, it is rain." of."

I said no, there seemed to be something on the sacrificial altar, which flickered, and it might have something to do with the sinking of the pond.Unexpectedly, this directly attracted Dabeitou's attention. He stared at it for a while, then suddenly remembered something, and sat up: "Go! Go and have a look."

We started to tidy up. This time, we brought the most clothes and food, and we took all of them. As for the diving equipment, we left them in place, in case we can still use them when we return to the original road. We only brought some ropes and axes to pry them. Working tools such as bars.The deeper you go, the more hidden dangers will become bigger and bigger. The more equipment you have on your body, although it is much cheaper in terms of speed, but once something happens, your means of coping will be limited.I couldn't help worrying, the big back seemed to see what was on my mind, he patted me on the shoulder, and said that he would take care of everything, I just put my heart in my stomach.

Dabei was carrying a black mountaineering bag on his head. I noticed that he never left his body all the time. Maybe it contained his important things.The cow is big and strong, and it seems more than enough for one person to carry two bags.I saw that Huang Mao was carrying an extra-large travel bag, which contained tools.The thin man wanted to carry one too, but the big-backed head said no, just let her empty-handed, in case something changed, he could deal with it randomly.Seeing this, I am also happy to be at leisure. If I really want to have something, I can just run away on the spot, and it is more convenient to run around.But I didn't expect it, and it happened to be this one, which became my most fatal mistake.

After tidying up the outfit, Dabeitou took the lead and walked towards the sacrificial altar. We followed behind him tremblingly, lest we take a wrong step.Leading to the sacrificial altar is a stone road, slightly arched like a stone bridge, half a meter wide, and below it is a dark pool of water.On the stone path, there are all alternating colored stripes, as well as patterns of tigers, eagles, and deer gods. The morphological composition is closely related to people's lives, and it gives the Jurchens a subjective shamanic cultural awareness.

The stone path is only about 30 meters in length, and it didn’t take long to come to the end. We are in this situation. If we step wrong and fall into the pool, we may not be able to survive, so the lighting is particularly important.Along the way, we tried to keep the miner's lamp as low as possible so that the people behind us could see the stone path under our feet clearly. At this time, he suddenly waved his hand back, and the people behind us all stopped. He turned the light forward After a dozen, we saw something we were dumbfounded on the sacrificial altar not far away.

Because of the distance, it was hard to see what Guiqi was, so it just made people think that it should be a huge ice cube. At first I thought it was glass, but after thinking about it, it seemed wrong. During the Jin Dynasty However, the Jurchen people still tend to be a more primitive society, and the smelting industry is not as good as the Southern Song Dynasty, so it is okay to play horseshoes, and glass is definitely not produced.

The more I walked, the closer I got to the sacrificial altar, and slowly I saw it clearly. The sacrificial altar is a regular quadrilateral, and it must be about five meters high. There are stone steps on all sides, and it seems that I can go up to the altar. .Da Beitou said to be careful, and then walked slowly towards the sacrificial altar. Huang Mao and Niu Er, who followed him, also cheered up and followed Da Beitou vigilantly.

It wasn't until we got under the sacrificial altar that everyone breathed a sigh of relief. Maybe we thought too much. There are no organs around the sacrificial altar.But the calmer it is, the more dangerous it seems. Behind the seemingly safe, there may be a crisis that we don't know about.Dabeitou was obviously aware of this, and did not dare to rush up to the sacrificial altar, but turned around the base, and finally took the lead to go up the first step of the stone steps after confirming that it was safe.

The steps of the six people were very light, and each step was completely solid before they dared to take the second step. Fortunately, it was not long. After a few minutes, we all went up to the sacrificial altar.The scene we saw was completely different from what we had expected, because the thing that looked like a block of ice, in my speculation, could not be as simple as a block of ice, it must be something else.But on the sacrificial altar, there is no such thing as a pot and torture platform. What is there is just a huge ice!But the thing inside the ice cube is not simple. He made everyone's hairs stand on end and shuddered.

In the middle of the sacrificial altar where the big-backed miner's lamp was shining, a huge coffin head appeared, 2/3 of which had protruded from the sacrificial altar. The entire huge coffin was carved from ice and jade, and the patterns on it were very beautiful.When I first saw it, I thought it was a crystal coffin, but later I found out that it was a real coffin made of ice.

As soon as he saw the coffin, Huang Mao became distracted, always thinking about the artifacts inside, smiled and said: "Hey old man, I am a yellow girl sitting in a sedan chair, it is the first time I see you, and there is a coffin made of ice , I think the baby here is definitely not simple."

This is beyond the scope of my bachelor. I searched through the ancient books, but I don’t think there is any record of this, so I smiled and said to Huang Mao: “The biggest drawback of using ice as a coffin is that it will melt. The penguin is okay, but I think it’s just a lump of ice, and your wishful thinking may not work.”

Niu Er and Brother Liu Mao didn't think so, they really belonged to the same village, and now they came to a consensus, meaning they didn't care if it was there, and went to see it before making a plan.

But I don't think I can be so rash, because I noticed from the corner of my eye that the thin man has not moved, looking solemnly at the small half of the big-headed ice coffin, which is not easy.

I suddenly realized that things might not be as superficial as we imagined, so I analyzed: "I think it's better to be careful, don't be careless; you think, what is the sacrificial altar used for?"

"Sacrifice?" Huang Mao picked his nostrils and glanced at me, he didn't care what I said: "I only know that there is a thing called sex sacrifice in Japan, a group of women carry a dick all over the street, why? Connected?"

Huang Mao ran the train with his mouth full, and what he said was completely out of tune. I could only explain it to him: "The sacrificial altar was used to worship gods in ancient times, and sometimes a living person was directly nailed to death on the sacrificial altar with an iron drill. , and then disembowel it. Anyway, the scene is as disgusting as it is disgusting, it won’t look good, but you can’t touch anything that is used for sacrifice, it will be considered as blasphemy.”

"Then what does this have to do with us?" Niu Er still didn't understand.

I looked at the big-headed ice coffin over there, and found that it was slowly melting, and the water flowed all over the ground. I couldn't help but said in a deep voice: "Maybe this ice coffin is used for sacrifices. I think it's better not to catch his attention." it is good."

Dabeitou waved his hand when he heard my words, and only said that I was exaggerating, "Don't talk nonsense, I'll go and have a look, and then make a plan."

After speaking, he carried the miner's lamp and walked to the ice coffin, his movements were very light and his voice was extremely low. As soon as I got closer, I found that he was obviously stunned, and then his face became less relaxed.After watching for a few seconds, he suddenly squatted down again, and shone the light into the ice coffin. Immediately, the light was shining brightly, and a black shadow appeared in the ice coffin.

Because we were separated by a few steps, and the ice coffin did not fully reveal the sacrificial altar, all we could see was such a thing, so we could only focus on Dabeitou, guessing from his facial expressions, the most What is possible.The big-backed head was concentrating, his face was almost pressed against the body of the coffin, and he looked inside without blinking his eyes, as if he was in extreme shock.It wasn't until another ten seconds later that Dabeitou came back to his senses, and suddenly waved to us, signaling us to go over.

The few of us felt itchy when we saw it. We were very happy about Dabeitou's move. Except for the thin man, we almost ran over. We rushed to the ice coffin in a few strokes, and surrounded it non-stop. Look.

The coffin came up from the inside of the sacrificial altar. I think it may be due to the overturning of the bottom of the pool and the sinking of the pool, which caused the deformation of the entire cave structure, and the force transmission and extrusion on the sacrificial altar. .But what I can't figure out is how this big-headed ice coffin was preserved. Although it is now three feet frozen in the Xing'an Mountains outside, it is not difficult to preserve.But in this ancient tomb, a huge greenhouse will naturally be formed, which is why we didn't feel how cold it was when we were in it, and the pool of water under the sacrificial altar has not yet frozen.It may be that there is a special structure in the sacrificial altar. As far as I know, there was something called "Mingwax" ​​in ancient times. It was extracted from whale fat. Won't melt away.Although I can't guarantee whether this thing was used to preserve the coffin for nearly a thousand years, how can we understand all the wisdom of the ancients?All that can be done is to approach the truth infinitely.

The perception at close range is really different from that at a distance. When I first saw the shadow in the ice coffin, I just felt that it was a white and transparent mass. At first I thought it was an animal, but later I gradually discovered that it was actually an animal. people!

It was a naked woman, her carcass curled up, curled up in an ice coffin like a baby.

Looking close to the body of the coffin, I can indeed see it more clearly. I can't use words to describe how perfect the figure of the woman in front of me is.Exquisite facial features, suet-like skin, pure white and flawless, slender arms, well-proportioned limbs, fingers as slender as jade onions.There is no excess in skin texture, and a head of black and beautiful long hair surrounds her waist, showing every detail, so beautiful that it is suffocating.

Niu Er was so excited, he didn't know what he was joking about, but now he still has the desire to lust.Brother Liu Mao was not ashamed of him, but he himself was not much better, the two of them haggled about each other for a long time, both of them were the eldest brother, don't laugh at the second brother, with the same number of pockmarks on their faces.Dabeitou became a little impatient when he heard it, and glared at the two of them: "Are you still bickering at this time? Time is running out, you must act quickly. Don't you just like this porcelain figure? You two, dig her up come out!"

I thought I had misheard by mistake, Niu Er and Liu Maodi were immediately dumbfounded, until Da Beitou said it again, Huang Mao couldn't figure it out, "Brother! I shouldn't have asked this, a dead body, At best, no matter how beautiful it is, it’s just a skin. There’s no need to go through such troubles, right? It can be sold for money, but we’ll ship this thing back to Hong Kong and pass checkpoints along the way. .

Seeing Dabeitou's expression didn't look like a joke, I suddenly realized that things were abnormal, it had reached an unbelievable level, let alone that he ran all the way from Hong Kong across half of China to Daxing'anling, just for this beautiful woman. dead body.Dabeitou may also feel that his words are too straightforward, cleared his throat, coughed twice, and just said that you can do as I want, I am free to measure this matter, if you ask you to do this, you must do it value, don't ask for the rest.

Thinking about it, except for me, the rest of the people are all hired by him. If you get paid, you should do things for others. If you ask around, it will appear that you are not upright.Although I clearly didn't take the money, I still got a lot of benefits from him in a practical sense. After all, if I want to go out, I have to obey his unified arrangement. I think our little brother should figure it out better.

Huang Mao took off the bag on his shoulder, opened it and took out the tools, such as small hacksaws, axes, and crowbars, you can choose whatever you want.I only picked up a crowbar, Dabeitou picked up the axe, ordered everyone to disperse, and handed over the miner's lamp to me.He steadied his horse, picked up the ax with both hands, and shouted loudly, the ax hit the head of the ice coffin, and the whole body shattered immediately.

(End of this chapter)